Willy Porter is a mid-west boy through and through. He’s quite successful in the Chicago market as well as surrounding markets like Milwaukee, Madison, Ann Arbor etc. His Midwestern values shine through on the title track of his new record called “How To Rob A Bank”. It’s a bitter look at the way large corporations have plundered the nation.
Instead of barging down the door and heading straight for the vault the robber in “Bank” joins the bank’s board, hangs out in country clubs “farting in velvet couches”, and begins his corporate raiding. The song is an indictment of the robber barons of Wall Street, the politicians in Washington and the people supposedly in charge of minding the proverbial store. It’s all put together in a song that musically reminds me of Loudon Wainwright or Todd Snider.
The new record was released today and is available here.
P.S. There’s a much longer live-in-the-studio version in the midst of a podcast interview with Willy Porter via Dylan Bolin – highly recommended)
